Kazakhstan - Imprisoned journalist and political activist Vladimir Kozlov granted early release

Kazakhstan. Владимир Козлов выходит на полусвободу.

"News that imprisoned journalist and political activist Vladimir Kozlov is to be granted early release is a welcome step, PEN International said today, while pointing out that Kozlov should never have been in prison in the first place. --- ‘But Kozlov has spent far too long in prison merely for his peaceful expression.  We call upon the Kazakhstan authorities to fully protect the right to freedom of expression and to ensure that no other writers have to suffer as Kozlov has.’ (Pen)

PEN International:
http://www.pen-international.org/newsitems/kazakhstan-journalist-vladimir-kozlov-granted-early-release/
"Vladimir Kozlov is a Kazakh journalist, human rights defender and a leader of Alga!, a political opposition party has been serving a seven-and-half-year prison sentence in penal colony LA 155/14 in Zarechnyy village (Illiysky district, Almaty Province) for ‘inciting social discord’ and ‘calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order of the state’. Kozlov was convicted in 2012, after his peaceful international advocacy on behalf of the striking oil workers in the city of Zhanaozen, south-west Kazakhstan."



Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Right and Rule of Law: "Владимир Козлов выходит на полусвободу"
http://www.bureau.kz/novosti/sobstvennaya_informaciya/vladimir_kozlov_vykhodit_na_polusvobodu_